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We welcome Scotlands decision to ban private firms from doing disability benefit assessments
02 October 2017 | News
... Butler, DR UK’s Welfare Rights Adviser said: “We very much welcome all of Scotland’s disability benefit reforms. It shows that it has listened to the criticisms that disable ... to make better use of existing information within the health and social care sector and other public bodies.” In ...
Bereaved relatives call on DWP Secretary of State to launch public inquiry into benefits deaths
19 July 2021 | News
... ours are not part of a wider problem. But your own figures show that the DWP has internally investigated 97 deaths since ... it take to overhaul the way that the system works, when so much harm has been done over so many years? It is hard to ... the benefits system.” The letter has been sent as Rethink Mental Illness publishes a significant new report -Tip of ...
PIP assessments first independent review: second government response
25 November 2015 | News
... primarily on the short–term recommendations and set out how the Department would respond to them, complementing work ... to the effectiveness of the assessment for people with a mental health condition or learning disability. The responses to ...
Thousands of Disabled people unfairly chased for social care debt
01 March 2023 | News
New reporting by the BBC has shown that more than 60,000 Disabled adults and those with ... expenses disabled people face in maintaining their health and well-being, such as accessible transport, adapted ... people chased for unjust debts for their care show how much things need to change. The government should create a ...
Women go undiagnosed, accused of ‘hysteria’ - CII report
17 June 2021 | News
... (CII). The data will be submitted to the Department for Health and Social Care for its Women’s Health Strategy ... what’s called ‘medical gaslighting’ and the damage it does, not just medically but on the whole of our lives, is ... healthcare costs by diverting patients who take up too much GP surgery time away from biomedical investigation and ...
Our Interview with Paralympian Sophie Christiansen!
20 May 2025 | News
... DR UK: You've worked tirelessly to use your position to show that, despite how well known you might be and the ... being able to take part in this when you were young did so much for you, both as a young person and for your whole ... how important these experiences can be to us personally. It doesn't have to be winning a gold medal, though obviously ...
Covid 19 and the rights of disabled people
06 April 2020 | News
... decisions about who gets treatment and care and who doesn’t. We understand that they will have to judge ... that people’s existing health will be taken into account. However, we have read about cases that have made us feel ... of all ages, as set out in the Human Rights Act (1998), the Mental Capacity Act (2005), the Adults with Incapacity ...
DR UK Response To Fit Note Reform Consultation
22 July 2024 | News
... of the fit note process to support those with long term health conditions “to access timely work and health ... out so called “sicknote culture”. “Statutory sick pay in the UK is low by international standards , and UK ... – there are now nearly two million people waiting for mental health support and approaching 8 million for elective ...
DR UK calls for new assessment approach for PIP as Atos and Capita get £40m increase
04 February 2018 | News
Government spending on private firms carrying out 'brutal' disability benefit assessments soared by £40m in one year. ... out of 10 appeals are successful. Atos and Capita rely on healthcare professionals who are cheaper than doctors or ... paramedics, for example, are wrongly assessing people with mental health conditions. The Government should be looking ...
DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's New Year message
30 December 2022 | News
... would come into 2022 with a little more understanding about how we, as Disabled people, live our day-to-day lives. The ... encouraged that the Government has announced a new National Disability Plan for 2023, but as ever, the devil will be in ... unsupported, nor denied thriving lives. Kamran Mallick CEO, Disability Rights UK DR UK CEO Kamran Mallick's New Year ...